Free Web Design Software : Web Design Group SPCUG

These Web design editors fall into two categories, graphic editors that allow you to create pages by placing text and pictures on a page the so called, What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editors and Text editors which simply allow you to create or edit the html which means you need to understand how to write html code. There are several free editors available on the net, here is a selection of ones the group has used: The main program the group choose was Net Objects Fusion, the full version of which has been available through various Computer magazine cover CDs. Net Object now offers a free version called

Expression Web 4

http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=36179

This in my opinon is the best free software available. It use to be around $250 Australian now its free.

Here are some tutorials from the web.

This Quick Start tutorial is from Winthrop University in South Carolina

http://www.winthrop.edu/uploadedFiles/web/ExpressionQuickstartGuide.pdf

This is a full PDF Tutorial by Patricia Geary

http://www.expression-templates.org/tutorials/expression-web-4-ver2-2.pdf

Serif WebPlus Starter Edition

http://www.serif.com/int/en/freedownloads/web-design-software/

This is a fully graphic program. It is a scaled down version of the companies paid product. They have several free version of their products including Photo editing, Presentation design software, a Drawing tool and several other programs

Here are some mauauls from Serif

.The full WebPlus X7 Manual
http://www.serif.com/media/community/pdfs/webplusx7-qs.pdf

and a Quick start guide
http://www.serif.com/media/community/pdfs/webplusx7-qs.pdf

Net Object Essentials:

http://netobjects.com/html/essentials.html

Our old favorite.

Other free editors, the group has looked at are;

Coffee Cup:

http://www.coffeecup.com/free-editor

Allycode:

http://alleycode.com/

The group had a look at Alley Code and experimented with it. Here is a PDF of the main features of Alleycode.